| 1963 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans | ||||
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The 1963 consensus first team. Clockwise from top left: Bonham, Harkness, Thacker, Kramer, Heyman. | ||||
| Awarded for | 1962–63 NCAA University Division men's basketball season | |||
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The consensus1963 College Basketball All-American team as determined by aggregating the results of five major All-American teams.[1] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: theAssociated Press, theUSBWA, TheUnited Press International, theNational Association of Basketball Coaches, and theNewspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). 1963 was the last year that the NEA was used to determine consensus All-American teams.
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Bonham | F | Junior | Cincinnati |
| Jerry Harkness | G | Senior | Loyola (IL) |
| Art Heyman | F | Senior | Duke |
| Barry Kramer | G/F | Junior | NYU |
| Tom Thacker | G | Senior | Cincinnati |
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Bradds | F | Junior | Ohio State |
| Bill Green | F | Senior | Colorado State |
| Cotton Nash | F | Junior | Kentucky |
| Rod Thorn | G/F | Senior | West Virginia |
| Nate Thurmond | C | Senior | Bowling Green |
| All-America Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |||
| Associated Press[2] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Bill Bradley | Princeton | Bill Green | Colorado State | ||
| Gary Bradds | Ohio State | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Jimmy Rayl | Indiana | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | |||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Tony Yates | Cincinnati | |||
| USBWA[3] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | No second or third teams (10-man first team) | |||||
| Ken Charlton | Colorado | |||||||
| Bill Green | Colorado State | |||||||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | |||||||
| Walt Hazzard | UCLA | |||||||
| Art Heyman | Duke | |||||||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | |||||||
| Cotton Nash | Kentucky | |||||||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | |||||||
| Rod Thorn | West Virginia | |||||||
| NABC[4] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Mel Counts | Oregon State | Gary Bradds | Ohio State | ||
| Bill Green | Colorado State | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | Bill Bradley | Princeton | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Joe Caldwell | Arizona State | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Barry Kramer | NYU | |||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | Tony Yates | Cincinnati | |||
| UPI[5] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Bill Bradley | Princeton | Bill Green | Colorado State | ||
| Gary Bradds | Ohio State | Barry Kramer | NYU | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Dave Stallworth | Wichita State | |||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nate Thurmond | Bowling Green | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | |||
| NEA | Bill Green | Colorado State | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | No third team | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Bill Bradley | Princeton | |||||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | |||||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | |||||
| Nate Thurmond | Bowling Green | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||||
AP Honorable Mention:[6]
Academic All-American teams were selected for the first time in 1963.[7][8]
| Player | School | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Art Becker | Arizona State | Junior |
| Ken Charlton | Colorado | Senior |
| Raymond Flynn | Providence | Senior |
| Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Senior |
| Gerry Ward | Boston College | Senior |
| Player | School | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Baker | Oregon State | Senior |
| Jay Buckley | Duke | Junior |
| Don Clemetson | Stanford | Senior |
| Brian Generalovich | Pittsburgh | Junior |
| Joe Dan Gold | Mississippi State | Senior |